Research
Our faculty members have a wide variety of research interests, of which the list below is only a small sample. Students interested in pursuing graduate study are encouraged to contact faculty directly.
Horticulture
- Antioxidant systems in fruit
- Apple breeding
- Berries
- Bioinformatics
- Calcium signaling
- Environmental horticulture and impact of plants on people
- Environmental stresses in deciduous fruit trees
- Floriculture and greenhouse management
- Fruit Horticulture
- Microwave vacuum dehydration
- Potato variety development
- Postharvest handling and storage
- Postharvest physiology
- Postharvest potato physiology
- Small fruit horticulture
- Stone fruit physiology
- Tree fruit bioregulators
- Tree fruit finish physiology
- Tree fruit genomics
- Tree fruit sustainability
- Unusual fruit
- Vegetable research
- Viticulture - cold hardiness, heat tolerance, pruning
- Viticulture and enology
Landscape Architecture
- Science gardens; landscape representation
- Human responses to the environment; crime prevention through environmental design
- Sustainable design, development and agriculture; farming on the urban fringe; issues of rural-urban interface
- Geographic information systems; image processing; land use and environmental planning